[joe-frank-list] Re: Jack Kornfield

[Larry Dunn]

From: "Justin Kempton" <justin at kempton.com>

>But just as Kornfield is appealing in his desire to
>be a good person, one of the things I love about
>Alan Watts, is that he allows for you to be bad. He 
>talks of a irreducible rascality in all of us. 

Hardly surprising in someone who drank himself to
death at age 58.  Or, more to the point, someone who
went from being a conservative Republican to being ...
a libertarian.  :D

>It's a morality 
>based upon the understanding that you are just as 
>capable if not more so of being evil in a given
>situation, 
>and so you do not judge others for their action. 

Which of course is strictly kindergarten stuff for sthaviravada.

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